Re: [Libhugetlbfs-devel] [PATCH] elflink: Fork to prepare segments when sharing too

2008-10-20 Thread Eric B Munson
On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Adam Litke wrote: > The functions find_or_prepare_shared_file() and obtain_prepared_file() both > call prepare_segment(). The former when sharing is enabled and the latter > when > not. While it was deemed beneficial to fork a child process to run > prepare_segment(), it wa

[Libhugetlbfs-devel] [PATCH] elflink: Fork to prepare segments when sharing too

2008-10-16 Thread Adam Litke
The functions find_or_prepare_shared_file() and obtain_prepared_file() both call prepare_segment(). The former when sharing is enabled and the latter when not. While it was deemed beneficial to fork a child process to run prepare_segment(), it was only implemented for the case when sharing is not